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LOST HEIRLOOM WHITE GOLD WEDDING RING IN NORTH SPOKANE….FOUND!!!

  • from Spokane (Washington, United States)

There are only a few reasons why Jade would take off her ring, which was a gorgeous white gold wedding ring her grandma left her when she passed. However, the reason that made her ring come off was not a reason she had ever considered. See, Jade was at a birthday party for her nephew, and it was in full swing. The pool was cool and refreshing. The drinks were delicious and overflowing. Jade’s family were all having a great time. Amongst all this glee there was a tussle that broke out. It was brother vs. sister; I’m pretty sure sister won. This led into a cousin falling down and Jade and a few others trying to pick up the poor fella. The night seemed to slip away into the darkness of a hazy birthday party. After the fog of a few too many had lifted, Jade’s hand that the ring was on felt a little off. As Jade brought it up into view, the problem became very clear. Grandmas ring was missing. The moments turned into hours, the hours turned into an afternoon, the whole family was in search and recover mode. They took a quick trip to the hardware store, and they had a metal detector in their grip. Swinging the coil around felt awkward. The myriads of signals played havoc on their confidence and ultimately left them feeling hopeless. Hopeless fingers got online and typed in a search term that brought up The Ring Finders website. The same fingers dialed the local Ring Finder.  My ears got to hear the sad story of how Jade lost her ring. Then I drove quickly to Jade’s mom’s house where the ring was hiding. Tracy, Jade’s mom gave me more details about that night before and how the ring probably was lost. I made a few passes over the most likely spot and then moved outward from there. After completing two grid searches on the grass I moved onto the unlikely areas. Behind the pool, in the trash can, in the neighbor’s yard and finally around the patio. As some of Jade’s family was leaving so was my hope in finding Jade’s ring. Talking about how I would search the house with Tracy, I decided to go over how the ring could be lost in the gap of the flower box and the fence. Both the flower box and the fence were giving off strong metal signals. Even though I had already searched with my coil and my pin pointer in this flower box I had not pulled back the grass and looked in the gap. As I shuffled through the weeds, I moved a pool noodle that was wedged in the gap. After not seeing the ring, I set down the noodle and got a very shocking glimpse of Jade’s ring. The eruption of emotion took over the moment. Jade had been inside the house when I said the famous Ring Finders words,  » I Found It ».  Tracy called to Jade and they both embraced in a hug with tears of joy running down their faces. Shock waves for happiness radiated out from that back yard.  The thoughts of a higher power at work crossed Jades mind as she looked up to sky at her late grandma smiling down on her. I know how mysterious Gods works are and that afternoon was no small miracle. Jade’s ring was found and I thank the God for that. Thank you, Jade, and to your family as well for trusting The Ring Finders and believing in the goodness of people.

 

The Feisty Grand Kid loses Grandmas Wedding Ring

 

The first GOLD ring I ever found, went VIRAL!

  • from Meridian (Idaho, United States)

One of my favorite memories…

After finding my first ever gold ring while metal detecting, I did a little detective work to track down the original owner. The ring I found was a big 1960 gold class ring from a nearby high school. After a little research, I found that the school keeps photos of each graduating class in the main hallway. After finding the class of 1960 all I had to do was find the person with the same initials on the ring, and as luck would have it, there was only one match. I instantly punched his name into Google on my phone, and to my surprise, he was the first person to pop up. After contacting this person and asking him if he had lost a class ring, we set up a meeting so I could return it to him. He and his wife were thrilled to see the ring again after over fifty years of being lost, and I was glad I could be a part of its return.

After more than 50 years lost, the ring made its way back to the original owner.  It’s moments like these that remind me why I love detecting!
I shared the full story on youtube, and the video has been viewed over 2.4 million times.

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Ring lost in the river, found with metal detector

  • from Meridian (Idaho, United States)

VIDEO- https://youtu.be/3jubKEZ7rqE

A family lost a ring in the river and asked if I could help find it. Using my new Minelab Vanquish 560, we searched the water and recovered it! This was one of those hunts that reminds you why metal detecting is so addicting. Not just the find, but getting to return something that truly mattered to someone.

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Lost White Gold Wedding Ring in Ponderay Lake….Found!!!!

  • from Spokane (Washington, United States)

A Memorial Day vacation for Constantine and Silvana was winding down. All the fun filled activities planned for that weekend were almost completed. However, Constantine had one last challenge to attempt. He and his buddy wanted to do a cold plunge in the frigid waters of the Ponderay lake. Gritting his teeth as the cold-water bit into his feet, Constantine stepped quickly onto his paddle board. Then Constantine paddled out into about seven feet of water. After a few encouraging words from his family, he dove into the murky green water. As Constanine kicked off the board, the board floated quickly away from him. The shock of the ice-cold water gave Constantine a boost of energy, so he swam quickly to retrieve his board. Reaching for the edge of the paddle board, the wedding ring he was wearing left his finger and sank quickly into the lake. There was a video taken of Constanine during his cold plunge experiment. This gave me the confidence I needed when I showed up to search for his lost ring. I was told that the video showed him with and without the ring. Also, I got a forewarning for the ice-cold water. So, I brought all of my cold-water gear. The first few steps into the water gripped my ankles as the water made its way into my dive boots. The rest of my suit kept out the cold fingers of the winter snow runoff water. There was a distinct L shape Constanine made, while swimming around. I started at the very end of that L and made my way to where Constanine had jumped off and then climbed back onto the board. Each passing second seemed like an eternity to Silvana as she watched me searching. Silvana was probably playing the wedding over and over in her head because they had just gotten married two months before. The new wedding ring that Constanine had just started wearing, already held a lot of memories and sentiment to the both of them. At the very moment when hope was fading as I came close to the end of the L shape, I saw a very round shape sitting in the rocks. My first attempt to pick the ring up with the scoop failed. The water was just a little too deep, because as I tried to dive down, the buoyancy of my suit shot me back up to the surface. After failing twice, I collected myself and yelled to the crowd watching, “I found It!”. Their cheers put me back into the mindset I needed. My scoop was to my left sitting motionless. I grabbed it and went at the ring again. This time the ring fell gently into my scoop. As I passed my scoop up to Constantine, the whole dock worth of people where smiling and cheering. I have had a lot of scoops full that revealed a valuable item, but none of them felt as good as a successful ring find does. Blessings to you Constantine and Silvana, may God Bless your marriage and life together. Thank you for trusting The Ring Finders you two.

 

Ice cold water and Newlyweds don’t mix

Lost White Gold Wedding in Hillyard Washington…..Found!!

  • from Spokane (Washington, United States)

There are not many reasons a husband would forget about his lost wedding ring. However, for Breydon, the new addition to his family caused a three-week pause from the time his wedding ring was lost. Then after that brief hiatus from looking for his ring, Breydon called The Ring Finders to help with the search. Following Breydon into the backyard I spotted two very playful kitty cats. While swinging my detector over the grass where Breydon was performing his workout, the kitty cats were playing and investigating my every move. This was an added distraction to the already challenging ground. The number of targets that lurked below the dirt kept my pin pointer buzzing. Each target mimicked the sound of a lost ring. I must have walked over Breydon’s rings a few times mistaking it for a large signal of buried rubbish. Nevertheless, a Ring Finder is there to uncover all targets to eliminate the possibility of missing the lost item. So, repeating my grid search over that spotty signal, allowed my pin pointer to take a break. The dried grass from Breydon’s mower bag was keeping the ring safe and sound inside of it, until I came along to liberate it from its hiding place. As I handed Breydon his ring back, it ended the three-week long torturing that he was going through. It is truly amazing that we get to be a part of an individual’s life story, and for Breydon, the birth of his daughter received one more happy detail to the already joyous event.

 

Where did the cat hide His wedding ring

Lost keys in Lincoln Heights Park….Found !!

  • from Spokane (Washington, United States)

As the snow was falling in Lincoln Heights, so were the keys Charlotte had in her pocket. While throwing a ball and taking her phone out of her pocket, the keys dislodged themselves from inside her jacket. That action left her stranded at the park because her only car key was on that ring. As she looked frantically, Charlotte asked some of the other people in the park to help her look. Sadly, no one wanted to help her look. With somber hearts and heads hung low, Charlotte and her dog walked home that night. After returning home from a long trip the next day Sergio her husband heard the news of Charlotte’s lost keys. While returning to the park to look Sergio felt the need to find someone to help them. Google gave Sergio my name and we started talking that morning about the lost keys. I got myself ready and headed out as soon as Sergio gave me the go ahead. After going over the details for how the keys were lost, I started my search right by the car that Charlotte had exited from. The many foot paths and shovel marks made seeing any sign of the keys impossible. Resorting back to the east to west grid search pattern, I tried to keep a tight weave as I swung my coil back and forth. After making about halfway up the hill I was talking with Charlotte about her actions. She described walking up and down the sled hill and she showed me where she was throwing the ball for her dog. I switched my search pattern to north and south. As I made my 4th path up the hill I got a really high tone on the metal detector. I swung the coil over the target, I could see it was only showing a few inches down. I knew the snow was over a foot deep, so the target had to be big. Kicking at the snow moved it away from the grass revealing the cluster of keys. Shouting to Charlotte I found the keys, she walked toward me with a tired gate. The weight of the lost keys had been lifted and she was so happy.

 

Will the keys work after being frozen in the snow

Lost Wedding and Anniversary Gold Rings in a field near Hayden Idaho, FOUND!!!!

  • from Spokane (Washington, United States)

We walk through life trying to make sense of all the new things that we experience. The one constant is our emotions. They rise and fall, they grow and shrink, we lose them and gain them. Inevitable, when the control we have over them fades the outcome is unfamiliar. What happened three weeks ago to Carla, was out of control and unfamiliar. This is where The Ring Finders steps in and takes control of the situation. We restore balance to the unstable and bring back what is lost. Here is where Carla’s ring find story begins. The task at hand was to locate two gold rings that were hiding in a field in the back part of Carla’s house. I arrived at her house in the P.M. hours. With my head lamp and detector, I dove into the backyard in search for her rings. I made quick work of the first section that Carla pointed out. The ground in that section was flat and barren. A few tuffs of weeds scattered the area. As I do with every search, I stretched the search area out to the extreme to eliminate all possibilities. Moving back and forth between the first and second area I came to a point where I needed Carla to redirect the search. After she told me that there was a possibility that the rings were lost out in front of the sliding glass door, I picked up my grid search line and starting a new line. Carla had left me to go get Joshua her husband to recall where the rings could have been lost. As I heard the door open to the house and Joshua walking toward me, I spotted Carla’s wedding ring siting in the darkness. Making small talk with Joshua, I placed the first ring his hand. We came up with a plan to mark the location of the first ring and search around that spot. Within a few minutes of searching, a solid signal came through my headphones. That was the sound of Carla’s anniversary ring and the sound that her lost ring had been found. Walking back to the house Joshua and I hatched a plan to reveal the rings to Carla. I started off telling Carla that the search was over and I was done searching for the night. I told her I was sorry about that, as I grabbed the rings from my pocket. I handed the rings to Carla; she gave me a giant hug. The weight of that event was lifted off her shoulders. Regret was resolved; anger was forgiven. The members of The Ring Finders recover rings, while restoring the balance to life’s shaky events.

 

No amount of force can keep a Ring finder from finding some rings

 

 

 

Lost Platinum Wedding Ring near Coeur d’Alene Idaho….Found!!!!!

  • from Spokane (Washington, United States)

There was a quick and heavy snow fall that gripped the Coeur d’Alene region, last Tuesday. The roads were impacted; the houses were blanketed and the cars that were left out had been fully covered. This was bad news for Brad. The family had to leave the house soon. Before starting his truck, the driver’s side door had to be cleared. The top of the door always dumps snow into the cab if it’s not removed. After getting the snow off the car he had to clean his hands. With a quick flick the snow shot off his hands. But with the snows icy grip, it stole his ring from his finger. The quick theft that happened on his ring finger sent a cooled chill into his hand. Brad’s brain knew right away that the slippery hand of snow had struck, and his ring was gone. The search began for Brad’s ring instantly. The snow was deep, and it was dark out. So, Brad knew he had to get a metal detector. He was able to rent one and after only finding iron, he returned the detector.  While at the rental shop the clerk told Brad about « A Group » that uses metal detectors. That group, Brad found out, was called The Ring Finders.  So, Brad’s wife Alissa called me and made arrangements for me to come out the next day. After greetings and handshakes, I walked over to the side yard and spoke to Brad about the action that he did to lose his ring. He showed me the flicking motion he did with his hand and where the ring could have landed. I started searching and right away I got a signal and bent down and found a piece of wire. Then moved on down the side of the grass. As I came back, I got the same signal right where I found the wire. So, I pinpointed and dug through the grass until the ring popped out. The ring had buried itself so deep in the grass, that it wasn’t visible by eye and the wire hid it from the metal detector.  I was able to get that sneaky ring back to Brad very quickly.  Thank you, Brad and Alissa, for trusting The Ring Finders. Merry Christmas.

 

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Ring found in Calgary Park

  • from Calgary (Alberta, Canada)

She called just after midnight. Rather distraught. I’m glad she did because I needed to be there IMMEDIATELY. The next morning I arrived at the park at sunrise and walked the path with him on Whats App. Before I could go back and get my equipment I spotted the ring on the path. Picked it up and hit the road to return it the same day.

Lost Ring found by Calgary Lake

  • from Calgary (Alberta, Canada)

It took a while to find but eventually we did. Not under the boardwalk but still above the ground. I spent a lot of time crawling around under the deck. One time being 6’4″ was not an advantage. Pretty sure I had exhausted the area, I stepped back and asked myself what other things could have happened. Then I spotted it. Sitting pretty on the joist supporting the deck. A quick snag and a lovely surprise moment full of tears of joy. Watch the video for the reaction.